Study backs bid to halt ultraviolet treatment efforts

8:43 PM,
Dec. 8, 2013

The ultraviolet chamber of New York City's plant in Mount Pleasant, seen in 2012.

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Westchester officials released a study Friday they said backs up their plan to abandon a $100 million project to bring ultraviolet-treated water to part of the county and replace it with a simpler, cheaper alternative.

The alternative plan had raised concerns among some communities that their water pressure would drop if the county began tapping the same source. But Ned McCormack, a spokesman for County Executive Rob Astorino, said the study shows the plan will work to get treated water to all of county Water District 1, which serves 175,000 people in Yonkers, Mount Vernon, White Plains, ...